Re: [Evolution] sendmail -> procmail -> evolution, all on local host

[Kenneth Porter <shiva well com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 08:34, Fred Perloff wrote:
> I am running sendmail on my localhost. It dumps my mail in
> /var/spool/mail/$USER. Then I am running procmail to filter spam. Right
> now procmail is moving filtered mail to $HOME/mail where I read it with
> pine.
>
> I would like to use evolution as my MUA. Can someone help me with the
> syntax for the procmail filter to move mail where evolution can find it,
> and where I should point evolution in Tools | Mail Setting | Receiving
> Mail | server type & configuration in order to read the filtered mail
> spool?

Note that it's not sendmail that puts the mail in /var/spool/mail/$USER.
That's done by the local delivery agent configured in sendmail.mc, which
might be procmail. If it is, you can hook your filter in at delivery
time.

I use this to run the "Procmail Sanitizer" on my system to clean
potentially hostile content from mail destined for my users.

http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html